Quote

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

George Santayana

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Santayana
Age: 88 †
Born: 1863
Born: October 2
Died: 1952
Died: September 16
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Madrid
Spain
Jorge Santayana
Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana
Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana
George Santayana
Best
Men
Doers
People
Virtuous
Buddhist
Lows
Friendship
Friends
Evil

More quotes by George Santayana

Image
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana
Image
A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world.
George Santayana
Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
George Santayana
Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
George Santayana
Image
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
George Santayana
Image
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
George Santayana
Image
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
George Santayana
Image
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Image
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
George Santayana
Image
America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana
Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
George Santayana
Image
The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.
George Santayana
Image
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
George Santayana
Image
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
George Santayana
Image
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
Image
It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
George Santayana
Image
We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.
George Santayana
Image
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
George Santayana
Image
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
George Santayana
Image
Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
George Santayana